Arvids
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arvids is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 70K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,702 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arvids counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 1,702 | 1 in 1.1K | 1.7K | Arvids | 45 |
| CN China | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Arvids | 1 |
| US United States | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Arvids | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Arvids | 20 |
| DE Germany | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Arvids | 13 |
| NO Norway | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 18 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 5 | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | Arvids | 4 |
1,702 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling arvīds. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arvīds Skurbeb. 1888LVLatvian military personnel (1888–1972)
- Arvīds Kalniņšb. 1894LVLatvian chemist and politician (1894-1981)
- Arvīds Ķibildsb. 1895LVLatvian athlete (1895-1980)
- Arvīds Pelšeb. 1899LVSoviet politician, historian (1899-1983)
- Arvīds Jurgensb. 1905LVLatvian sportsman (1905-1955)
- Arvīds Pētersonsb. 1913LVLatvian ice hockey player (1913-1985)
- Arvīds Jansonsb. 1914LVLatvian conductor (1914–1984)
- Arvīds Klišānsb. 1934LVLatvian hornist
- Arvīds Barševskisb. 1965LVLatvian entomologist and rector of Daugavpils University
- Arvīds Reķisb. 1979LVLatvian ice hockey defenceman (born 1979)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 40 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 39 | #1,799 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #19,929 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arvids mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Arvids a male or female name?
- Arvids is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Arvids have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Arvids, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arvids.
- Where is Arvids most common?
- Arvids is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Arvids?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,702 people named Arvids, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arvidsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arvids”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.